Philosophy & Poetry Entropy | 27 Feb 2009
As such continuing my fascination with -Time .. with T.S. Eliot’s – Four Quartets, in which Eliot uses language to reflect the finite nature of life and the infinity of existence.
Time more than anything defines the contrasting dimensions of relative existence: an apparent snare with no escape, a continuum of change ever wearing away the [...]
Literature & Poetry Entropy | 22 Feb 2009
Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates unanswerable questions with immense élan and delicacy. This particular poem has deeper meaning and inferences in philosophy, biology and psychology. Like all her poems, this one takes us to the edge of an abyss.
The title “Autotomy” is biological term for the capacity of certain living things, [...]
Want to surprise that special someone this valentine ? Here is a timeless idea.
Wish to rejoice this valentine Day, in a today’s arduous times with Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet..
Love is metaphysical gravity
~R. Buckminster Fuller
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the [...]
Books & Poetry & Science Entropy | 11 Feb 2009
Darwin in Song.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species,” The New York Times profiles Richard Milner, a singing Darwinian scholar.
Refer to my previous post The year of Darwin to explore further..
The origin of the Origin
Also on this occasion of bicentenary [...]
I continue with Czeslaw Milosz’s poetry, which deals with the central issues of our time: The impact of history upon moral being, the search for ways to survive spiritual ruin in a ruined world. For me, in some ways, this poem is autobiographical.
Account
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
Some would be devoted to [...]